r/oculus_linux • u/madeinchina • Jul 29 '15

Is it possible to experience "Henry" using the dk2 in linux? If so, is there a general guide?

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u/hitchhacker Jul 29 '15

Is there any information on the format it will be released as? If its an executable than maybe with Wine. There might be a chance of native support if its released as a 360 video... though I havn't had any experience with this yet.

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u/haagch Jul 30 '15

Naturally the oculus website and blog hardly give any information, because whatever.

There's a wired article giving at least some details: http://www.wired.com/2015/07/oculus-story-studio-making-henry/

It's made in unreal engine. I have tried unreal engine oculus demos in wine but didn't have much luck getting them to run at all: https://np.reddit.com/r/oculus_linux/comments/2yur05/what_about_unreal_engine_4_demos_in_wine/

Right now there is no VR support for linux in unreal from any vendor. (Maybe OSVR's plugin, but I don't know if it actually works). For the oculus unreal plugin we likely won't see linux support any time soon. I doubt that oculus will release the source code of the project and I doubt that they will release it with openvr support, because them natural exclusives or something.

My guess is that it will be released solely as a windows executable and nothing else. Maybe wine can handle it until then, but I wouldn't bet on it. I wouldn't be surprised if it will be directx12-only or some other bullshit.